Early spellings include Rocksbury, Roxburie, and Rocsbury; the town was named probably in reference to its rocky site.
Archaic spellings include Chaderthon, Chaderton, Chaterton, and Chatherton.
Alternative spellings include Tildeslei, Tildeslege, Tildeslegh and Tildesley.
Other archaic spellings include "Radclive" (recorded in 1227), and "Radeclif" (recorded in 1309 and 1360).
Spellings include Beneford from 1200 21 and Bedeford in 1200 and 1296.
Other archaic spellings include Asteleye (1292) and Astlegh (14th and 15th centuries).
Other recorded spellings include Leech, 1264; Leeche, 1268; Leghthe, 1305; Leght, 1417; Lech, 1451; Legh, 16th century.
In English, E. angustifolium is known by a variety of common names (with various spellings), including common cottongrass, common cotton-grass, common cottonsedge, tassel cotton grass, many-headed cotton-grass, thin-scale cotton-grass, tall cotton-grass, downy ling and bog cotton.
Salta appears in older documents with several variant spellings, including "Sathowe".
Because it spells many sounds differently it has at least twice as many spellings than any other alphabetic system.
